Usage:
Wedowee Formation (AL*,GA)
Wedowee Group (AL)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical) --all in AL: Cornhouse Schist, Cragford Phyllite, Cutnose Gneiss, Hackneyville Schist.
Geologic age:
Paleozoic*
Cambrian
Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures at and around Wedowee, Randolph Co., eastern AL (see Raymond and others, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).